Improvement in folding wash-benches



C. H. BANGS.

FOLDING WASH-BENCH.

No.1'71,911. Patented Jan.11,1s7e. 1pz/'3.1

N-PTERS, PNOTO-LITKOGRAPHER. WASNINGYON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. BANGS, OF FARMINGTON, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING WASH-BENCHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,91 l, dated January 11i, 1876; application filed october 2e, 1875.

' To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES H. BANGS, of Farmington, of the county of Franklin and State oi' Maine, have invented a new or Improved Wash-'Iub Folding' Bench or Stand; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 an end elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of the said article unfolded or ready for use. Fig. 4 is a top view, and Fig. 5 a longitudinal section, of it in a folded state.

In constructing it I take two long bars or boards, A A, of equal length and width, and set them up edgewise and parallel, and connect them by two cross-bars, B B, arranged atwise, all being as shown, and the lower surfaces ofthe bars B B being' Hush, or about so, with the lower edges of the bars A A. On

the bars B B, at their middles, I iix two square blocks, C C, ot' a height sufficient to bring a at intermediate bar, D, when arranged on them as shown, andxnailed to them, even, or in the same plane on its top surface, with the upper edges ot' the side bars A A. Between and against the bars A A l place, in manner as shown, four tapering legs, E E E E', each pair E E of them being connected by two rungs, F G. rlhe ripper rung F of each pair is to be extended through and beyond the legs, and into cylindrical holes in the side barsAA, and there formed as journals to trn in said holes. These holes I arrange so near to the next adjacent cross-bar B as to cause it to operate as a stop to the pair of legs,

AD, supporters C C, cross-hars B B, and Y twosets ot' legs, E E', the legs can be folded together entirely between the side bars A A,

with the rung of one pair resting against the center or intermediate board or bar D, and

when unfolded the said legs are sustained in their outermost positions by the bars B B.

The whole constitutes a very light washtub supporter or stand, one which can be folded in a very small compass.

I do not claim a wash-bench or a bedsteadframe composed ot' a frame or board and two pairs of legs hinged to such frame or board, and provided with braces.

I claim- In the described wash-tub supporter or fold ing stand, consisting of a frame and the two sets ot' legs, as set forth, the improved frame as composed of the three longitlfdinal bars A A D, the two cross-bars B B, and the supporters C (l, all being applied and arranged together,

`and .with the sets of legs E E, as specied.

OHAS. H. BANGS. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY', J. R. SNOW. 

